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Drachm - Mujashi' Eastern Sistan - Arab-Sasanian
| Issuer | Abbasid Caliphate |
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| Year | 750-770 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Mint | Sistan (Eastern) |
| Mintage | ND (750-770) - 132-153 AH |
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Mujashi' ibn Bishr al-Kilabi served as governor of Sistan under the early Abbasids, and coins struck in his name occupy an awkward transitional moment — the Abbasid revolution had toppled the Umayyads in 750, but the eastern provinces continued issuing debased Arab-Sasanian types that aped the old Sasanian drachm format rather than adopting the reformed dirham coinage that Abd al-Malik had introduced decades earlier. Sistan was simply too far from the administrative center for standardization to bite quickly.
The weight here — well below the canonical 3.9 g of the Sasanian prototype — reflects decades of incremental debasement across the eastern mints.